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• I regard the amount of brainpower going into money management as a national scandal. When some idiot would get rich, they'd say, 'Well, old Charlie was out in the field playing the big brass tuba on the day it rained gold.' A lot of people have become rich lately who were playing the tuba on the day it rained gold.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Gold, Tubas

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• The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Administration, Helping

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• You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

  Warren Buffett

  Rich, Neighbor, Knows

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Honesty, Mean, Rich

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• We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

  Herman E. Daly

  Needs, Environment, Clean

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• When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.

  Jimmy Carter

  School, Expectations, People

  Interview with Laurie Goering, articles.chicagotribune.com. December 20, 1998.

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• Writers have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted - I think my goal wasn't to get rich and famous, necessarily, though I cared about that. I always thought, "Oh, this could be a hit," or "that will sell records." But the first thing I wanted was that people who knew a lot about music, or had taste-making qualities, they would like my stuff. Writers, people like that.

  Randy Newman

  Thinking, People, Goal

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Wise, Money, Men

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• Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

  Toni Morrison

  Age, Ruins, Rich

  Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last. Excerpt From: Walter, Isaacson. “Steve Jobs.” Simon & Schuster, 2011-10-23T21:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Believe, Goal

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• If you look in The Science of Getting Rich, you see no reference whatsoever to the law of attraction.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Looks, Rich

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• As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

  Maureen Dowd

  Wall, Character, Blue

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• I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

  Julianna Margulies

  Jobs, Waiting, Live Your Life

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• When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

  Bernard Baruch

  Boys, Belief, Illusion

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• It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Epic, People, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

  Mike Markkula

  Believe, Goal, Lasts

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• To get rich is glorious.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Political, Politics, Rich

  Attributed in Adweek, 16 Sept. 1985.Widely attributed to Deng, but there is no evidence that he ever used it. It was popularized by Orville Schell's 1984 book, To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the '80s. Schell has stated that he probably encountered the phrase in Chinese media reports.

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• Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

  Jim Rogers

  Way, Rich, Following

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• One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

  Ron Rash

  Children, Rich, Poor

  Ron Rash (2009). “Serena”, p.241, Canongate Books

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• If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot.

  Michael Medved

  Believe, Creating, Causes

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• But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Unemployment, Minimum Wage, Littles

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• Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

  Warren Buffett

  Get Well, Mistake, Thinking

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• Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.

  Steve Miller

  Goodbye, Travel, Eye

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• Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

  Charlie Munger

  Tragedy, Typical, Example

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• Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients. Henry Ford never diversified, Bill Gates didn't diversify. The way to get rich is to put your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket very carefully. And make sure you have the right basket.

  Jim Rogers

  Eggs, Choices, Watches

  "Jim Rogers: Diversification Is A Scam" by John Carney, www.businessinsider.com. April 16, 2009.

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